Friday, May 2, 2014

J Street's Sour Grapes

The faux/fair-weather Zionists aren't taking their rejection by mainstream Jewry well:
In the aftermath of being denied entry to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, J Street has fulfilled the predictions and warnings of those who foresaw divisiveness and petulance within the ranks had  J Street been admitted. 
Rather than taking the vote as a sign that the organization had not yet become sufficiently established for the mainstream organizations to feel confident it would play nicely in the sandbox with others, J Street began a letter-writing campaign ridiculing the long-serving and highly respected executive vice president Malcolm Hoenlein. That campaign also attacked the manner in which the vote had been taken – a vote in accordance with the bylaws of the organization. 
J Street lashed out at those who dared to apply the same rules to it as the Conference has applied to every other new member. 
The sophomoric message J Street posted on its website sought to rebuke the Conference of Presidents, and to claim that the fact it was rejected proves its conceit:  its positions are bold, brave and absent from the Conference and the fact it was rejected proves its voice is needed. 
J Street suggests that without its voice as an essential and robust part of the conversation, the Palestinian Arabs will continue to be victims of the Israeli aggressors and deprived of their rights to at least half of the sliver of land to which Israel is currently in control, either due to a global licence or as the result of a defensive war...
While J Street's message is utter bollocks, I have no problem with its members giving voice to it. Were it silenced, how would we know how lame, uninsightful, unhelpful and riddled with leftist guilt its message really is?

Perhaps the most deluded of all J Street delusions is that Palestinian Arabs are victims of Israelis and not of their own leaders along with their crocodile teary-eyed brethren in the Arab and larger Muslim world. Oh, and let's not forget the huge role the UN has playing in the decades of institutionalized victimization via UNRWA and other UN bodies, too.

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